It's Been A While

Clearly, it's been a while since I've added an enthralling, edge-of-your-seat blog post. My last post was 10 days ago so it's been at least 10 days. No, wait, that one was just a random thought about bacon fat so it doesn't really count. I guess it's been more than 10 days.

So what's been happening on Horseford Road? Not much. Not much can happen with all of the snow and ice. Today is the 25th. I didn't have to work the 24th or the 23rd. I did work 20th through 22nd because I had to because I didn't work the 17th, 16th, or the 13th. I'm counting backwards in my head as I write this so excuse the descending order of my dates. The 13th was Monday. It snowed a lot. I was not even willing to try to get out. If you don't know, I drive a Dodge Charger. It's a lovely car and I've enjoyed having it for 2 years now. It's cool but it's 4 door for the kiddies. It's fast enough though my husband says it's not as fast as I think it is. I love it. Unfortunately, it does not go very well in the snow. More unfortunately, it will not climb a hill in the snow. Also for those of you who do not know, we've got about 1/2-1 mile of hill to climb to get to our house. This might not be such an issue if the first 100 yards or so was not almost straight up. My car doesn't do well in that so, on days when the weather is extremely bad, I can't get home if I do manage to get out. So, Monday was out. We spent the entire day at home.

Spending the day with the boys was actually pretty nice. I got a lot of housework done. I mean a lot. They fought a lot too so it evened out the day. We had fun and watched tv, made snacks and cookies and slept late.

Tuesday, the hubby called early to say that I could get out if I wanted too. The roads weren't bad at all. Words that will live in infamy. I believed him because I'm perhaps the most gullible person on the face of the earth. We left the house at 8 am. First, I almost didn't get out of my driveway. Second, I slid off of our gravel road onto the blacktop. Third, I couldn't even get the boys to mom's. Fourth, it took me an hour and a half to make what should have been an hour trip, tops. I was ready to kill my husband, seriously. My day started bad and really didn't get much better......

I actually tried to get my car home rather than beg, steal, or borrow someones AWD or 4WD. We made the blacktop part of the trip easily enough. After the third try at getting up the steep part of the gravel road and sliding back down, I wound up in a ditch. Fortunately, the next door neighbor, J, was driving by and actually used his body to push the back of my car out of the ditch. That was pretty awesome. After the 4th try, hitting it hard and hitting it fast, I was able to get to my house. I thought I would kill the hubby when he walked in. I restrained myself though because I love him and I'm a good Christian girl and don't go around killing people. Also, I don't know who would raise my kids if I go to prison.

Wednesday was not so bad. I got down the hill without too much incident and it warmed up enough that I could get back up with no problem. Then a couple of inches of snow and ice were dumped up on the top of the hill. Actually, I think it was dumped everywhere. I didn't leave the house Thursday or Friday. We had a great time at home. Except that we ran out of diapers by 11 am on Thursday. No problem, I said. This will be a  good opportunity for potty training. 5 pairs of wet underwear and puddles of pee on my hardwood, and countless hours of seeing a toddler's naked but, and I had to revise my thought. He is not ready for potty training. He is quite happy to pee on  himself and whatever gets in the way. He has also become very accomplished at removing his underwear. It was a trying day and we were both thrilled when Daddy got home with the diapers.

So, with the inclement weather, I was forced to use vacation time to stay at home. This resulted in my having no vacation time left, forcing me to go back to work. To do this, I had to borrow a vehicle. We borrowed the father-in-law's Oldsmobile Bravada. It got me where I needed to go, even though I'm convinced that our gravel road is covered with 6 inches of solid ice. But, most importantly, I've learned a valuable lesson. I really like having a warm caboose. That vehicle has seat warmers. I am officially in love with seat warmers. It's absolute paradise having my seat warmed even when the rest of the vehicle is cold. I drove it all week for that reason alone.

And now, since we've gotten an extra couple of inches snow on top of our compacted ice, we're going back to get the Bravada so I can get to work Monday. Ahhh, a warm bottom.  Hehe.